The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century by Hodes, Martha

The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century

Award-winning historian Martha Hodes brings us into the extraordinary world of Eunice Connolly. Born white and poor...
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Author: Martha Hodes
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The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century by Hodes, Martha

The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century

$44.48

The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century

$44.48
Author: Martha Hodes
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Award-winning historian Martha Hodes brings us into the extraordinary world of Eunice Connolly. Born white and poor in New England, Eunice moved from countryside to factory city, worked in the mills, then followed her husband to the Deep South. When the Civil War came, Eunice's brothers joined the Union army while her husband fought and died for the Confederacy. Back in New England, a widow and the mother of two, Eunice barely got by as a washerwoman, struggling with crushing depression. Four years later, she fell in love with a black sea captain, married him, and moved to his home in the West Indies. Following every lead in a collection of 500 family letters, Hodes traced Eunice's footsteps and met descendants along the way. This story of misfortune and defiance takes up grand themes of American history--opportunity and racism, war and freedom--and illuminates the lives of ordinary people in the past.

A Library Journal Best Book of the Year and a selection of the Book of the Month Club, Literary Guild, and Quality Paperback Book Club.



Author: Martha Hodes
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/17/2007
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.26h x 6.33w x 0.95d
ISBN: 9780393330298

About the Author
Hodes, Martha: - Martha Hodes, a professor of history at New York University, is the author of White Women, Black Men, which won the Allan Nevins Prize for Literary Distinction. She lives in New York City and Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

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